Francisco del Rosario Sanchez

Francisco del Rosario Sanchez (9 March 1817-4 July 1861) was President of the Dominican Republic from 28 February to 1 March 1844, preceding Tomas Bobadilla.

Biography
Francisco del Rosario Sanchez was born in Santo Domingo, Captaincy General of Santo Domingo in 1817 to a pardo (triracial) father and a Canarian mother, and he taught himself Latin and French before becoming a lawyer. During his studies abroad in the United States and Europe, he came to support the republican ideals of the Enlightenment era. In 1844, he took over the revolutionary leadership from the exiled Juan Pablo Duarte during the Dominican War of Independence, and he became commander-in-chief of the Dominican rebels after the Dominican Republic proclaimed its independence. He was exiled for four years by Pedro Saldana before returning to the Dominican Republic; in 1861, he took part in a failed coup against Saldana, and he was executed.